Example sentences of "[noun sg] believe that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Key believed that motherhood brought women their greatest fulfilment , her work was widely quoted with approval , although her defence of ‘ bachelor motherhood ’ for the unfortunate ‘ surplus ’ women achieved a notoriety similar to Grant Allen 's apparent advocacy of ‘ free love ’ in The Woman Who Did . |
| 2 | In this respect Fforde believes that individualism was not just a particular strand of the Conservative tradition , but was the Conservative tradition , and that ‘ Tory Centrism , anti-capitalism , or paternalist interventionism ’ are ‘ phantoms of the historiographical imagination ’ . |
| 3 | Packer believes that nepotism plays no role in the explanation of these events because the males of a troop , having transferred into it from elsewhere , must be only very distant relatives of one another . |
| 4 | This administration believes that government has been attempting to do too much . |
| 5 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 6 | Under the previous law , the offence was committed where the onlooker believed that violence was intended to be provoked or ‘ whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned . ’ |
| 7 | Teachers of problem solving believe that problem solving can be taught , that it helps people in solving problems and that this is a good thing . |
| 8 | Margaret Meek ( 1982 , p.26 ) says that ‘ The parents ’ role … is to encourage the child to believe that reading is a worthwhile and pleasurable thing to do , that literacy is within his grasp , and to provide the means for his enjoyment and success ' . |
| 9 | Almost everyone in Britain and the United States who has any acquaintance with law believes that Parliament and Congress and the various state legislatures make law and that past judicial decisions must be given credit in later ones . |
| 10 | The creed had such a powerful hold upon the party that even Quintin Hogg , who later chose the life-peerage title Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — you can hardly get more urban than that — was opining in 1947 that ‘ the Conservative believes that farming is more than a business ; it is a way of life , essential to the community in war and peace . ’ |
| 11 | Capra believes that quantum mechanics demonstrates that there is no such thing as certainty in the physical world , and that the mechanistic view of the world which dominates scientific thought should be replaced by a view of the physical world as dynamic and interconnected . |
| 12 | Henley Forecasting believe that interest in sports activity will experience positive growth over the next few years in response to a rise in income levels and an increasing awareness of the importance of regular exercise in maintaining good health . |
| 13 | The Government of the day believed that takeover activity was the means by which the stockmarkets ensured that companies were motivated to become as efficient and successful as possible . |
| 14 | Does my hon. Friend believe that interest rates should be reduced by 0.5 per cent . |
| 15 | This court believes that discovery does not take place within [ a state 's ] borders merely because documents to be produced somewhere else are located there . |
| 16 | Furnham , in his study Culture Shock believes that training can overcome personality difficulties that come to the fore in this experience . |
| 17 | In this situation the Commission believes that consideration should he given to the use of a cantor , or animateur . |
| 18 | However , the Commission believes that time given in this way pays enormous dividends for a body of volunteer , amateur musicians and for those leading it . |
| 19 | Again both sides of industry are closely involved in their preparation , and in addition the Commission believes that trade unions should be " properly consulted in preparation of standardisation measures , and in the management of these Directives " . |
| 20 | Maury believes that Aromatherapy helps to attune the body with the spiritual elements in the universe as practised in these religions . |
| 21 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 22 | The Government believe that competition is the best guarantee of efficiency . |
| 23 | MicroMuse believes that Sun NetManager is the best tool for the job ( although an SQL link for the software is currently available only from a third party ) . |
| 24 | Age Concern believes that Mobility Allowance should be extended to those who become disabled after 65 and that payment should continue regardless of age . |
| 25 | The competition authorities should concern themselves with firms ' conduct only when there is reason to believe that competition is absent ( or would be absent were the conduct permitted ) . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the rules and guidelines should identify situations where there is good reason to believe that competition might be absent , before any investigation of supposed ‘ anticompetitive practices ’ such as price discrimination or vertical restraints . |
| 27 | For police warrants , normal methods of investigation must have been tried and failed and there must have been good reason to believe that interception would result in a conviction . |
| 28 | However , there is no reason to believe that behaviour can not be switched by simpler means such as false cues . |
| 29 | Similarly , there is no reason to believe that matriliny preceded patriliny . |
| 30 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |